This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... IV THE ZADOC PINE LABOR UNION From Zadoc Pine and other Stories by H. C. Bunner, copyright, 1891, by Charles Scribner's Sons. By permission of the publishers. When Zadoc Pine's father died, Zadoc found himself alone in the North Woods, three miles from Silsbee's Station, twenty-one years old, six foot ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... IV THE ZADOC PINE LABOR UNION From Zadoc Pine and other Stories by H. C. Bunner, copyright, 1891, by Charles Scribner's Sons. By permission of the publishers. When Zadoc Pine's father died, Zadoc found himself alone in the North Woods, three miles from Silsbee's Station, twenty-one years old, six foot one inch high, in perfect health, with a good appetite. He had gone to school one summer; he could read and write fairly well, and could cipher very well. He had gone through the history of the United States, and he had a hazy idea of geography. When his father's estate was settled up, and all debts paid, Zadoc owned two silver dollars, the clothes he stood in, one extra flannel shirt, done up in a bandanna handkerchief in company with a razor, a comb, a toothbrush, and two collars. Besides these things he had a six-inch claspknife and an old-fashioned muzzle-loading percussion-cap rifle. Old man Pine had been a good Adirondack guide in his time; but for the last six years he had been laid up, a helpless cripple, with inflammatory rheumatism. He and his son -- old Pine's wife had died before the boy was ten years old -- lived in their little house in the woods. The father had some small savings, and the son could earn a little as a sort of auxiliary guide. He got a job here and there where some party needed an extra man. Zadoc was an excellent shot; but he was no fisherman, and he had little knowledge of the streams and ponds further in the woods. So, when the old father was gone, when Zadoc had paid the last cent of his debt to the storekeeper at Silsbee's -- the storekeeper taking the almost worthless shanty of the Pines in part payment -- when he had settled with Silsbee's saw-mill for the boards out of which he himself had made his...
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Add this copy of The Joy in Work: Ten Short Stories of Today (1920) to cart. $19.49, good condition, Sold by Decatur Used Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Decatur, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1929 by Henry Holt.
